Example sentences of "he [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Three days after receiving the inspectors report , he passed it to the Serious Fraud Office for further investigation . |
| 32 | He re-directed it to the sales department and made a mental note to have a word with the post room ; it was about time that they got their act together . |
| 33 | Pitching the F1 as a ‘ super-bike ’ , he sold it at a retail price of £13,000 . |
| 34 | An owner now obtained ( in theory at least ) the same price for his land irrespective of whether he sold it to a private individual or to a public authority . |
| 35 | He sold it to an American bookseller , who broke up the historic volumes that had survived the hazards of more than six centuries . |
| 36 | After this but before the rogue was traced , the rogue took the car along to a market in Warren Street ( where dealers commonly sold cars ) and he sold it to an innocent purchaser . |
| 37 | The star lot , Holbein 's Lady with a Squirrel , was withdrawn two weeks ago by Lord Cholmondeley , when he sold it to the National Gallery for £10 million . |
| 38 | It had made the Marchese a small fortune when he sold it to the deputy of the English connoisseur in Naples who was going to ship it away in boxes ; it was being stripped from the walls when the Government heard of it and came and sealed up the villa again , but not before one of the intermediaries had sliced enough off the top of the deal to pay his passage to America , promising to send after him for his family . |
| 39 | Mr Gordon was the owner of the Dunkeld business before he sold it to the Tulloch Group in 1988 . |
| 40 | so he sold it in a wrong time he could have , he could have hold on to it another few months and got a lot of money for it |
| 41 | He sold it in no time — at the price he originally wanted . |
| 42 | It was a defiant challenge , and he met it with a frown . |
| 43 | He might not volunteer information , but is he is asked , he supplies it in a flawlessly polite manner . |
| 44 | It was not a place to which he could take Maureen MacQuillan or any woman , and only partly because he shared it with a fellow MP . |
| 45 | He fought it for a second , then gave in . |
| 46 | It was hanging on the wall , and when he applied it to the p'tar 's rump the beast screamed once , as if outraged , and then it trotted sedately out of the stall and allowed itself to be backed between the shafts of the cart . |
| 47 | Zeno ran a coin across his knuckles , this way and that , a tiny acrobat , then flipped it ; as it fell he clapped it to the back of his hand . |
| 48 | But when the dentist had announced that it was urgently necessary to extract two teeth Mills had got up and walked away , glad that he had n't taken off his coat and so would not have to enter into any further discussion while he recovered it from the waiting-room . |
| 49 | If he refers it to the Court of Appeal , Courtney may well spend a proper period in jail . |
| 50 | Did he make it to a tree too ? ’ |
| 51 | But when he got it to the check-out the girl assistant asked him to pay £1.99 . |
| 52 | He got it with the cruel bonus of a broken jaw but took Tyson the distance . |
| 53 | He got it on the market . |
| 54 | The scar goes right up to his elbow and he got it in a fight just like the scar he 's going to have round his throat . ’ |
| 55 | He got it from a friend of his , a soldier in the Scots Guards . |
| 56 | He got it from the boys instead . |
| 57 | I 'm sure that 's where he said he got it from the |
| 58 | She handed him the long cane , and flinched when he swished it through the air to produce a vicious , menacing whistle . |
| 59 | He emptied it into the bath , and a cloud of steam rose . |
| 60 | By a somewhat artificial rule , a servant who receives a thing from his master for the master 's use is deemed not to be in possession of it , though the contrary is true where he receives it from a stranger for the master 's use . |